Kind of weird review, they didnt even try to find a GPU that it is comparable to. Looking at this table, its probably more like a 4050. The thing to note here isnt the performance right now, its the progress compared to like 2-3 years ago. If they can keep the prices at this level and keep improving performance at the same rate, then in another 2-3 years they will outperform everyone in terms of price/performance ratio. Also they have a typo here in the table they misnamed the GPU.
Even worse, the card’s model is ‘7G106’, 7G100 is the series, like saying NVIDIA RTX 5000 series of cards.
Oof yeah that makes it even worse. Cringe for how established of a site tomshardware is.
I feel like comparing it to the 4060 is fair seeing as it’s cheaper than this one.
I would argue that prices are easier for consumers to compare so in order to get a good baseline for a review you should try to find a GPU that has similar performance and then compare the prices between the two. That gives you a more useful insight into what you get per $
/remindme 3 years
They will most likely catch up like they are doing for electric for electric cars now.For the Hardware, yes.
But hardware is less than half the battle. Intel found this out the hard way. 3 times.
I would think software is even easier to catch up because you don’t need as much physical investment and experimenting is way cheaper, especially with LLM helping to learn now. I think DeepSeek is an example.
Innovation is difficult, but simply catching up with all the public research and open source solutions, not as much.oh god we will have vibecoded gpu drivers
Literally Google IO this year.
They showed off an OS they allegedly vibecoded with antigravity, tried to get it to run Doom, failed due to missing graphics drivers, then vibecoded the missing drivers live.
I was equal parts appalled and impressed.
We already do. All the corporate contributions to Linux kernel (including by Intel and AMD) lately have come with advertisements that they were “assisted” by copilot/claude/codex. Tech corpos are desperate to show to the world how they are using ai all the time.
It seems the only thing the West is successfully out competing china in is income and wealth inequality.
How are we outcompeting them? China has the most billionaires in the world while having a fraction of the average western minimum wage. We’re all in the same boat sadly just some are being told more coherent lies.
oh no we are losing there too.
Goog go China, please keep it up and break the duopoly of AMD and Nvidia. And please keep the drivers open source for us Linux folks (and for the west propaganda that China is surveilling everything)
How unexpected…
and with unexpected I mean completely expected
Btw here’s a better article: https://videocardz.com/newz/lisuan-lx-7g100-tested-chinas-new-gaming-gpu-runs-modern-titles-but-price-needs-a-reality-check
Not one mention of AI, let alone performance. Are we certain they evaluated the card on a task its really meant for?
Honestly this is an absolute win for China, keep in mind their homegrown GPUs and CPUs are only getting significantly better while US tech is stagnating (at least US consumer tech)
While I generally agree with other commenters here suggesting it’s only a matter of time before these are vastly improved… are there examples we can point to in the wild of other Chinese tech products doing this?
To be clear, I think there probably are (maybe Zhaoxin’s x86 CPUs?) but am hoping someone with more knowledge than me will chime in. Another potential one which comes to mind is the DeepSeek AI model family.
